1st Christmas test today
Today begins our five days of Christmas and I’m very nervous. Instead of being stressed I’m trying to look at is as being lucky that we have this many people who want to spend the holidays with us. Hopefully the weather will cooperate; we have been stuck with fog the last few days and now a huge snow/ice storm is headed our way. Oh well, can’t control the weather.
Tonight the event is at my mother-in-law’s. This first time out I plan to stick to my eating plan. I would love to say that I am going to allow myself to relax and enjoy the holiday treats but I still don’t feel strong enough to do the whole moderation thing. I suppose this is the one good thing about having my youngest son prefer to be with me, I will have something to keep me busy. She also usually can be depended on to have sugar-free jello which will allow me to have something sweet without breaking the bank.
I also told my hubby yesterday that I am going to need to workout FOR SURE today, tomorrow and Monday. I am going to to a tough workout so that my muscles are sore to have a reminder of all of the good things I am doing for my body. Plus, if my legs ache maybe I won’t cross the room to inhale my grandma’s peanut clusters. HA HA.
I broke down and got on the scale again yesterday afternoon and fortunately it paid off. It said 281.5!! Yippee. I am going to let this good feeling hold me through tonight and then tomorrow will be my official weigh-in for week #2.
I’ll write tomorrow to update how I did tonight.
Good luck, I’ll be cheering for ya!
I’ve had plenty of times when the best choice for me during the holidays was to remain quite strict w my plans, and it worked out fine.
I too find that forcing in the exercise helps a lot.
Good luck - you’re really off to a good start.